Washington — Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, a Delaware Democrat who is set to become the first transgender member of Congress, characterized a GOP effort to restrict bathroom use as an attempt “to get headlines.”
“Everything was fine until some members of the small Republican conference majority decided to get headlines and to manufacture a crisis,” McBride told CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane.
The Delaware Democrat told CBS News that she anticipated an effort to “politicize my use of a restroom,” and she indicated she had not intended to use multi-stall women’s restrooms in the Capitol.
Weeks after McBride became the first transgender person elected to Congress, a Republican-led effort to restrict restroom use in the Capitol got underway this week.
She told CBS News that she wants people to see her “competence in governing contrast with their chaos.”
Washington; Rep. Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware who will be the first transgender member of Congress, called a GOP attempt to limit bathroom use an effort “to get headlines.”. “.
“Until a few members of the small Republican conference majority decided to make headlines and create a crisis, everything was fine,” McBride told Scott MacFarlane of CBS News.
The Democrat from Delaware told CBS News she expected someone to “politicize my use of a restroom,” adding that she had no intention of using the Capitol’s multi-stall women’s restrooms. However, she added, “I have a choice here. “.
“I would have been happy to tell them what I was planning to do if anyone had thought to ask,” McBride stated. However, once more, this is not a problem. Additionally, there has never been a problem with this complex. “.”.
Republicans launched a campaign this week to limit restroom use in the Capitol, weeks after McBride was elected as the first transgender member of Congress. Representative. On Monday, Republican Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced legislation to amend House rules to restrict the use of single-sex restrooms in the Capitol complex to those that correspond to the “biological sex” of the user. “.
As the first transgender person elected to a state senate seat, McBride has tended to keep her head above the fray, emphasizing that her top priority is serving Delawareans in the House. “I want people to see my competence in governing contrast with their chaos,” she told CBS News. “.”.
“I want my elegance to stand in stark contrast to the grandstanding that is currently taking place. McBride said. “I want the disrespect we currently witness to be contrasted with my approach of respecting everyone. “..”.
Mace’s two-page resolution would assign the sergeant-at-arms to enforce the measure, claiming that “allowing biological males” into the facilities “jeopardizes the safety and dignity of Members, officers, and employees of the House who are female.”.
House Speaker Mike Johnson stated in a statement on Wednesday that he is in favor of limiting the “single-sex facilities” in the Capitol, claiming that they “are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.”. “..”.
McBride said she didn’t run for Congress to “fight about bathrooms,” but she promised to abide by the guidelines Johnson set forth, “even if I disagree with them.”. “..”.
